The Writer’s High

You know that feeling, when you’re in the zone and the words are flowing and something a little bit magical happens, when it feels like the story takes over and you’re just the vessel it flows through?  Your awareness of your body fades away.  You forget to be hungry.  Or tired.  Or care about the fact that you haven’t showered in three days.  Maybe (like me) you respond to questions without remembering what you said and eat everything that’s open on your desk without any memory of doing it. ...